Verification of Photometric Parallaxes with Gaia DR2 Data

Oleg Malkov, Sergey Karpov, Dana Kovaleva, Sergey Sichevsky, Dmitry Chulkov, Olga Dluzhnevskaya, Alexey Kniazev, Areg Mickaelian, Alexey Mironov, Jayant Murthy, Alexey Sytov, Gang Zhao, Aleksandr Zhukov

Published 2018-12-31Version 1

Results of comparison of Gaia DR2 parallaxes with data derived from a combined analysis of 2MASS (Two Micron All-Sky Survey), SDSS (Sloan Digital Sky Survey), GALEX (Galaxy Evolution Explorer), and UKIDSS (UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey) surveys in four selected high-latitude $|b|>48^{\circ}$ sky areas are presented. It is shown that multicolor photometric data from large modern surveys can be used for parameterization of stars closer than 4400 pc and brighter than $g_{SDSS} = 19.^m6$, including estimation of parallax and interstellar extinction value. However, the stellar luminosity class should be properly determined.